From Kandahar to Sarajevo, the forests of Lithuania to the boot camps of
the DRC, Zoe Lambert”s stories weave a dark and disturbing web, interlacing
documentary accounts with imagined testimonies to give voice to the many
silenced casualties of war: an elderly woman on a bus tells a love story
drawn from the depths of Soviet history; a soldier returns from his first
tour of duty unsure he deserves his hero”s welcome; a Norwegian immigrant
pieces together a family history fractured in the aftermath of Nazi
occupation. Individually, these stories bear witness to a thirst for
conflict that seems both unquenchable and foreign. But together, they bring
the question of collusion and responsibility all the way back to the
reader”s own doorstep.